# Licence for the visuals and text

Copyright (c) 2026 Neeraj Sharma, SPIN Lab, Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence,
IIT Guwahati, India.

The maps, visualizations, page text and derived data files made for Bahubhashi India are licensed under the
**Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0)**:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (full legal code: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).

You may share and adapt them for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit,
link to the licence and say if you made changes. Suggested credit:

> Bahubhashi India, by Neeraj Sharma, SPIN Lab, IIT Guwahati (CC BY 4.0). Data: Census of India 2011; speech: Vaani (IISc & ARTPARK).

The source code is licensed separately under the MIT licence (see `LICENSE`).

## Third-party material is not covered

These keep their own terms, listed on the site under "Data, credits & disclaimer":

- Census of India 2011 language tables: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India.
- Speech recordings: Vaani by IISc Bangalore and ARTPARK, CC BY 4.0 (our clips are trimmed and loudness-matched).
- Boundaries: INDIAN-SHAPEFILES, MIT licence (see `licenses/`).
- Script data: Unicode CLDR, Unicode License v3. Fonts: Noto, SIL Open Font License.
- Libraries: MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause), H3 (Apache 2.0).